From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Auto-copy to clipboard Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:53:00 +0100 Message-ID: <4756D76C.7080100@gmail.com> References: <13ldj6lro11gace@news.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196873664 10484 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2007 16:54:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tim Johnson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 17:54:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzxW4-0002z2-2k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:54:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzxVn-0006Wv-Ge for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzxVJ-0006Lv-Di for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:53:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzxVH-0006Jc-LM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:53:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzxVH-0006JI-Dz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzxVG-0003U0-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:65191 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IzxVE-0005un-8F; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:53:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <13ldj6lro11gace@news.supernews.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071205-1, 2007-12-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IzxVE-0005un-8F. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IzxVE-0005un-8F 03f39ff377294e4d37670a2d8b574496 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49854 Archived-At: Tim Johnson wrote: > Using GNU Emacs 22.1.1, kubuntu 7.1 with KDE 3.5.8 > > I'd like to able to > 1)compose a string of text (that's easy) > 2)Send that string directly to the clipboard, > just as if I had inserted that text into > the buffer, selected it and done kill-ring-save > or kill-region. > > Is there a function to do that? > If not, suggestions are welcome and pointers to docs > encouraged. > thanks > Tim To find out you may use C-h k and then enter the yank command. You then get the help text from where you can go directly to the source code.